Azure Architect Consultant

As an Azure Architect Consultant at Sopra Steria you will be a key part in both delivering projects to our clients as well as the further development of our cloud offering. You will be a key person in the projects you participate in either as a subject matter expert supporting multiple teams or as a technical team lead responsible for your team’s delivery.

As an Azure Architect Consultant at Sopra Steria you will

• Participate in planning and designing of Azure solutions at our customers.
• Work hands on with solutions that utilize the full breadth of the Azure platform with both IaaS and PaaS where Azure AD is central in managing identity and security.
• Coaching the client's organization on how to leverage cloud native and hybrid technology to implement new solutions or migrate existing solutions to Azure.

To succeed you must

• Have strong technical and problem-solving skills.
• Have excellent communication skills both verbally and in written text both in Swedish and English.
• Think repetitive tasks are boring so you always try to automate them.
• Be able to translate our clients’ needs into concrete design proposals and implementations.
• Be able to explain complex technical matters to non-technical stakeholders and decision makers.
• Have experience from the IT-consulting industry working in small and large teams.

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

• Experience from designing and implementing solutions in the public cloud, taking best practices of Security, Scalability and Performance into consideration.
• Experience in programming and/or scripting languages (Powershell, bash, python etc.)
• Experience from CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps etc.)
• Experience with Infrastructure as code (ARM, Terraform etc.)
• Knowledge and experience of different compute models (virtual machines, containers, functions, serverless) and their applications.
• Knowledge and experience with subscription Governance (Management Groups, Azure policies etc.)
• Familiarity with IP networking concepts such as VPN, DNS, load balancers, firewalling.
• Knowledge and experience with on-premises infrastructure as well as public and hybrid cloud methodologies.
• Knowledge and Experience with Azure AD, OAuth, RBAC and permissions management
• Knowledge of Cloud Security, monitoring and alerting.
• Knowledge and experience of source control management and automated deployments
• Knowledge and experience of containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).
• Knowledge and experience of software lifecycle management and how it can be automated.

About Sopra Steria

Sopra Steria, a European leader in consulting, digital services and software development, helps its clients drive their digital transformation to obtain tangible and sustainable benefits. It provides end-to-end solutions to make large companies and organisations more competitive by combining in-depth knowledge of a wide range of business sectors and innovative technologies with a fully collaborative approach. Sopra Steria places people at the heart of everything it does and is committed to making the most of digital technology to build a positive future for its clients. With 467,000 employees in 30 countries, the Group generated revenue of €4.3 billion in 2020.

The world is how we shape it.

Your application

If you have any further questions regarding this position please contact Business Owner Stian Svendal (stian.svendal@soprasteria.com), or Olof Kinell (olof.kinell@ext.soprasteria.com) for general questions about Sopra Steria or about the recruitment process.